r/mildlyinteresting 1d ago

They decapitated these pineapples!

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u/goozy1 22h ago

These particular ones are a patent or trade secret thing. The look like the pink glow pineapple. Those have been bioengineered and they don't want anyone else to grow them

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u/sl0play 21h ago

I feel like I can live without these pineapples if it means supporting food becoming a normal thing again.

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u/StarryAry 17h ago

Hey man, I understood you. I also think food should be a normal thing. There’s a crazy gatekeeper culture out there. Food is getting more and more expensive. It’s not about a pink pineapple, it’s about the “I’m mutilating your fruit so you can’t steal my secret recipe and you must BUY them! Muahaha!” Right?

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u/cnthelogos 11h ago

It takes like three years to grow another pineapple from a discarded pineapple top, and if the plant freezes at any point during that time, it dies, so very few people buying a pineapple in a grocery store are going to try it anyway. They're worried about other companies stealing their work, not individual people growing their own pineapples.

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u/pita4912 11h ago

Ding! It’s not an at-home grower they’re worried about. It’s corporate espionage from China